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Charting the History of Environmental Activism Through Posters

The impactful images showcased in Poster House’s upcoming exhibition helped shape public debate on environmental issues, but failed to modify behavior. 

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Celebrating “America’s First Lady of the Loom”

Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes is the first monographic exhibition of American textile designer Dorothy Liebes in over 50 years. 

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“Norman Foster” Show in Paris Celebrates Architecture for the Powerful

The Norman Foster retrospective at the Centre Pompidou tracks his journey to being the architect of choice for wealthy philanthropists and Silicon Valley moguls.

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Confronting Carbon Form, Embodied Carbon’s Complex Cousin

A recent exhibition at Cooper Union put forward a cogent definition of Carbon Form, our infrastructure’s deep indebtedness to extractive modes of production.

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The Singapore-Born Exhibition ‘R for Repair’ Travels to the United Kingdom

At London Design Festival, the second edition of the show commissioned by DesignSingapore Council is on view in the Victoria & Albert Museum.

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Surveying 100 Years of the Regional Plan Association

An exhibition takes a clear-eyed look at the Regional Plan Association's achievements and shortcomings, always with a focus on the future.

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Revealing How Iconic L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams Thrived in Nevada

An exhibition of photographs by Janna Ireland captures his Nevada work's artistry, innovative spirit, and accessibility to a broader clientele.

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A Craft Contemporary Exhibition Searches for New Dimensions in Quilting

The Los Angeles–based museum has opened a five-artist show to explore the meanings of layering in quilt-making.

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Crystal Bridges Imagines the Future of Housing

Five firms have developed five full-scale prototypes at the Northwest Arkansas museum’s Architecture at Home exhibition, on view through November 7, 2022.

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An Exhibition at Manhattan’s Drawing Center Cultivates a Gloriously Unruly History of Ornament

The Clamor of Ornament: Exchange, Power, and Joy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present revives a more inclusive history of ornamentation across the globe.

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An Exhibition Explores the Complex Legacy of America’s Most Common Construction System. 

American Framing, at Chicago's Wrightwood 659 Gallery, is an ode to the Balloon Frame.

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Designer Julia Watson on Reaching the Age of the Symbiocene

Metropolis asked Australia-born, New York-based Julia Watson to tell us more about what the Symbiocene era holds.

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The Adjaye Associates–Designed Basquiat Exhibition Looks Beyond the Myth of the Icon

The exhibition recreates the artist’s childhood home in Brooklyn, downtown studio, and the Michael Todd VIP Room at New York’s 1980s-era Palladium nightclub.

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Manhattan’s Center for Architecture Imagines the Future of Universal Design

Curated by Barry Bergdoll and Juliana Barton, Reset: Towards a New Commons explores “more holistic approaches to inclusion” through architecture and design.

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Majolica Mania Honors the Forgotten Laborers of the Whimsical Pottery Tradition

First put on by Bard Graduate Center last year, the traveling exhibition is now on view at Baltimore's Walters Art Museum.